Placing your painting on the floor by an open door will give you good illumination, even on a rainy day! Turn off all the other lights in the room and position your canvas roughly 60 cm away from the bottom of the door frame, stand directly over it to take your shot. Or lay your canvas on the floor inside, next to an open door, this will be your light source. You can either hang your canvas on a wall outside, preferably not in the glare of direct sunlight to avoid any reflection and hold your phone level and shoot. Taking your painting off the easel away from standard household lamps and placing it in natural daylight will make the biggest difference to almost every aspect of the photography process but primarily colour accuracy.
The most straightforward fix if you’ve been taking your photographs indoors, is to move towards the light. I appreciate how frustrating it can be to spend all your time on your painting and then when you want to share your work, the colours look off, or too dark, the image is slightly blurry or distorted. Photo taken indoors with the lights on in comparison to natural daylight Issue #1: The colours don’t look accurate Photographing with your phone in natural light There are two main approaches, natural light or artificial light, depending on what lighting conditions you have available to take your photos in. I’ve put together a guide below which addresses some of the most common issues and the simplest way to fix them. The larger the sensor, the bigger the surface area available to capture light on, so to get the best out of your phone and get great exposure on your shots, you need to follow a few easy steps. I see a lot of fantastic success stories from the tutorials on the blog and one of the most common footnotes is, “‘my painting looks better in real life than it does in the photo.”ĩ0% of them are taken on a phone or iPad and over the last couple of years, I’ve found smartphone cameras are getting better and better, as long as you bear in mind their sensor size.Ī traditional camera has got a much larger sensor, in comparison to a smartphone.
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